Jewish tradition honors Joseph as Yosef HaTzaddik — Joseph the Righteous One — precisely because of his capacity to change: ...

This week we are starting the Torah all over again with Parashat Bereshit (Genesis 1:1-6:8), and I’m taking advantage of the new Jewish year to restart my Torah Talk column. You know, of course, that ...

The Ramban [Torat Hashem Temima; chapter 7] writes that most of the mysteries of creation are encapsulated in parshat Bereishit, - so caution must be taken, not to understand the parasha on a ...

This week we restart the annual Torah cycle with Bereshit. There is an incredible midrash on the book of Ecclesiastes that could have been written by a present-day environmentalist. When God created ...

“Shalom, My name is Shiri Vidan and I’m a tour guide from Kibbutz Na’an. Last year I heard you explain how we complete the reading of the entire Torah on Simchat Torah and then immediately begin to ...

God creates the world. He creates Adam and Eve. He places them in the Garden of Eden. He commands Adam not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Thanks to the incitement of the serpent ...